A Novel Approach to the Combination of Knowledge Flow with Organizational Learning Process

Knowledge is becoming one of the most important factors for organizations (especially knowledge intensive ones) to keep their predominance of high competencies. This paper proposes a new approach to bringing knowledge flow into knowledge management system (KMS), through which the organizational learning could be better supported. Knowledge flow is an effective assistant for knowledge acquisition, sharing, reposition and generation (the key functions of KMS) in an organization. According to the usual notion that organizational learning could be divided into two types, internal learning and external learning, this paper presents a way to combine knowledge flow with KMS in common knowledge-based organizations, and we basically focus on the combination between knowledge flow and four domains of internal learning: individuals learning, intra -functional, inter- functional and multilevel learning, through which we improve the organization’s structure and core competency in the changeful environment.The original publication is available at JAIST Press http://www.jaist.ac.jp/library/jaist-press/index.htmlIFSR 2005 : Proceedings of the First World Congress of the International Federation for Systems Research : The New Roles of Systems Sciences For a Knowledge-based Society : Nov. 14-17, 2137, Kobe, JapanSymposium 6, Session 6 : Vision of Knowledge Civilization Society and Knowledg